| swab | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swob |
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| (noun) implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion | - |
| (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
| swabbing | (noun) cleaning with a mop | Synonyms: mopping |
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| swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swag | (noun) a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman | - |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize |
| (noun) valuable goods | - |
| (verb) sway heavily or unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, sag |
| swage | (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: upset |
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| (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
| swagger | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: groovy |
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| (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, strut |
| (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swaggie, swagman |
| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swash |
| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, bully |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, tittup |
| swaggerer | (noun) someone who walks in an arrogant manner | - |
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| swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
| swaggie | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swagman |
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| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| swain | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, fellow |
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| swale | (noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) | - |
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| swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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| (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
| (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
| (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| swami | (noun) a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect | - |
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| swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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| (noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| swamphen | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: gallinule, marsh hen, water hen |
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| swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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| swampy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged |
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| swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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| swank | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
| swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| swap | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swop, trade |
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| (verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
| sward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sod, turf |
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| swarm | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: cloud |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, horde |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, duskiness |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| swash | (noun) the movement or sound of water | - |
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| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swashbuckler | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap |
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| swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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| (noun) flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior | - |
| swastika | (noun) the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction | Synonyms: Hakenkreuz |
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| swat | (noun) a sharp blow | - |
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| (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| swatch | (noun) a sample piece of cloth | - |
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| swath | (noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: belt |
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| (noun) the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine | - |
| swathe | (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: wrapping |
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| (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swaddle |
| swathing | (noun) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby) | - |
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| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| swaybacked | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swayback |
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| swayer | (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: ruler |
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